If Christian Benteke wants to be the all-time Premier League goalscorer he'll need to keep going for another 21 years.

The Aston Villa forward currently has 32 Premier League career goals, 325 behind Jimmy Greaves' First Division record of 357.

Benteke's English league goals have come at a rate of 0.4 per game for Villa.

That means that the Belgian forward would need 21 more 38 game seasons to reach Greaves' record, if he keeps up his 0.4 per game ratio.

That's the second closest of any current or former Aston Villa player, with Darren Bent being the closest.

Darren Bent

The former England striker needs another 251 goals to reach Greaves' record, and with a Premier League scoring ratio of 0.4 per game he'd reach the tally in 17 seasons.

The closest current Premier League player is Wayne Rooney.

The Manchester United forward is 174 goals away from Greaves' record and if he were to maintain his career scoring ratio of 0.5 per game, then we would need to play for another 10 seasons to beat Greaves.

Van Persie is the next nearest and would need 11 years, as would Diego Costa, but only if he maintains his 0.8 goal per game ratio.

The Argentine is 288 short of Greaves' record and would need to keep up his 0.6 goals per game ratio to get there in that time.

QPR's Charlie Austin is 15 seasons away from the record while Dame N'Doye's three goals in five games for Hull mean that he could beat Jimmy Greaves' record in 16 seasons if he keeps going at that rate.

Three other Premier League legends would break Greaves' record in 16 seasons if they were to maintain their career form - Frank Lampard, Didier Drogba and Emmanuel Adebayor.

Jimmy Greaves' record was set when the top division had 42 games and not 38.

However, there were only seven seasons when Greaves played more than 38 league games, at a total of 21 matches.

His scoring ratio was 0.7 goals per game, which, over 21 games, amounts to just under 15 goals.

If you deduct that from his 357 total he would still have 82 more goals than Alan Shearer's record.